Digital Archive

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Evansville Images is a collection of postcards; magazine and book illustrations; and photographs of buildings, boats and people in and around Evansville, Indiana. The original images are from the Indiana Collection, which is located at Central Library in downtown Evansville. The oldest images date back to the 1800s. The library …

This collection of Evansville City Directories dates back to the first directory published in 1858. The directories provide historical information about Evansville, as well as addresses and occupations of residents; business listings; detailed trade and manufacturing information; advertisements; and information about schools, churches …

Evansville Postcards is a collection of postcard images depicting structures, people and attractions in and around Evansville. Two Evansville families, James & Rosemary Geiss and Thomas & Gina Topper, generously loaned their postcards to EVPL for inclusion in this collection.

Evansville Yearbooks is a collection of high school yearbooks from five public high schools in the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. The original yearbooks are located at the school corporation's downtown headquarters or at the individual schools: Bosse High School, Central High School, Harrison High School, North High …

About the collections

The Digital Archive collection created by the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library contains images of photographs, postcards, cartoons and documents representing people, places and things in and around Evansville, Indiana. Original images in this collection are from the Indiana Collection, located at Central Library in downtown Evansville, or from local residents.

The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) digitizes certain educational and historical materials so as to provide customers with access to these materials by using computers or the Internet. Unless otherwise claimed for specific items, the EVPL makes no assertions as to the original copyright to images digitized for our site. All images in the collections are intended for personal or educational/research use only and are not intended for commercial purposes. Any other use may be subject to additional restrictions including, but not limited to, the copyrights held by parties other than the EVPL. Users are responsible for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions and/or paying any associated fees necessary for the use of any particular image.